The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summerise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

Summerise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The bar chart depicts the data about weekly spending by families in one continent on different things from 1968 to 2018. After analysis, it can be seen clearly that in 2968 the money spent on food was maximum by 35%,
whereas
in 2018 it was nearly 17%.
In contrast
, the spending on leisure and housing showed a negligible difference of 4% in the year 2018.
Likewise
, in the case of ,1968 both housing and leisure had a difference of 3%.
Moreover
, the minimum spending was on fuel and power in both of the years which was 6% and 4% in the years 1968 and 2018 respectively. The bar graph
further
shows that expenditure on household goods was the same in both of the years. The rate of personal goods and, clothing and footwear spending in year 2018 was 4% and 5% respectively, which was almost double in 1968. The involvement of transport was about 8% in 1968 which was escalated by 7% in 2018.
Overall
, the majority of the expenditure in 1968 was on food which was changed to leisure in 2018. Household goods were the only which had the same expenditure throughout the period.
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